Local Link of the Day

My son-in-law has a buddy who's into Route 66 in a big way. SIL, who's a map freak, is looking for an old road map of Arizona from the days before I-40 made driving across the state just like driving across any other state. His idea is to overlay old 66 on aerial map panels downloaded from Google Earth. Cool idea. First I searched my own map stash (I guess I also qualify as a map freak), but no old AZ road maps. Then I went on line and turned up this fine site which takes you on a reasonably good historic tour of the Mother Road and the cities and towns for which it was the lifeline. BTW, contrary to what the site author says, the cafe at the Monte Carlo turnoff didn't go under until a shooting occurred sometime in the early 90s. The truck stop there was in business the last time I went to Flag via Ashfork.